The librarian gave Penelope a curious look as she slammed the book back on the counter. "Unbelievable," Penelope spat, her voice tight. "He portrayed me as… as a drama queen!" The librarian, a woman with a kind face and a penchant for order, simply blinked.

Penelope paced the library, the sterile air doing little to cool her rising temper. She felt a burning sensation in her cheeks. The audacity of this so-called "biographer"! He'd twisted her perfectly reasonable reactions into outrageous over-dramatizations. She could feel her hands clenching into fists. She needed to do something, anything, to remedy this insult. She considered every course of action, from writing a strongly worded letter to… well, she wasn't sure. But she wasn't going to let this stand.

Emotion: indignant

Cluster: Anger / Hostility
PC1 (Valence): -0.44 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 2.14

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion indignant. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 indignant stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the indignant emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the indignant vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
l0.614
C0.369
de0.305
que0.295
😠0.288
Suppressed:
own-0.363
soon-0.302
optimistic-0.270
உற்ச-0.261
gradually-0.256